TFW you find a new piece of historical work, welcome and valuable and in general well executed, that ignores your own (very relevant) work.

Very interesting webinar from @proghist.bsky.social yesterday: look out for a new lesson before too long (I hope) on visualising networks in library catalogue metadata. programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/

Just finished this. I think I need a little lie down, or a stiff drink, or something. And I can't tell you why without spoilers.

I worked on the 14th floor of this building, and spent many happy minutes slowly riding the paternoster lift. Faster than the stairs, less waiting than with the lift.

Bryony Hooper@bryonyhooper.bsky.social · 2mo ago

University of Sheffield in the news BBC News - University of Sheffield Arts Tower and record-breaking lift turn 60 - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hive mind: is it just me, or has Bluesky limited how many of your Likes it will show to those made in the last six months?

This feels as good a time as any to announce that in Sept I’ll be moving to Cambridge Digital Humanities as Professor of DH and Deputy Director. Excited for the new challenge, but also sad and thankful for the amazing colleagues I’m leaving.

Looking forward to some web archive research goodness shortly from @sesamescholar.bsky.social and Victor Harbo Johnston, courtesy of @netpreserve.bsky.social : netpreserve.org/event/iipc-r...

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It's taken a while, but there's now an Open Access version of an essay of mine (the publisher offered no route to OA, with or without embargo). Come and satisfy all your canon law history needs: 'Parliament and the law of the Church of England, 1943–74 peterwebster.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

Interesting paper at #susDH @ukiedh.bsky.social on designing DH project websites as static outputs for long-term sustainability. As an example: the Russian Visual Arts Project, my first job, which closed in 2003: still looking exactly the same save for the search. www.dhi.ac.uk/rva/index.html

Very pleased to be at this conference today. Is there a hashtag @ukiedh.bsky.social ?

UK-Ireland DH Association@ukiedh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The 2026 Annual Event on Sustainability starts this Monday @unisouthampton.bsky.social! The Association and the Soton DH team have been working hard to get everything ready & can't wait to welcome you. You can see all the sessions via the programme: digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026-annual-...

www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiou... News of the 2026 Evangelical Studies Program online conference. Join us!

Counting Evangelicals: A Major Online Conference

I am happy to lend space today to announcing a major virtual conference of real general interest, organized by the Evangelical Studies Program at Baylor

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Summary version at peterwebster.me/2019/01/29/p...

Parliament and the law of the Church of England, 1943-74

[This essay appeared in Thomas Rodger, Philip Williamson and Matthew Grimley (eds.), The Church of England and British politics in the twentieth century (Boydell and Brewer). The version of record …

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Peter Webster@peterwebster.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It's taken a while, but there's now an Open Access version of an essay of mine (the publisher offered no route to OA, with or without embargo). Come and satisfy all your canon law history needs: 'Parliament and the law of the Church of England, 1943–74 peterwebster.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

It's taken a while, but there's now an Open Access version of an essay of mine (the publisher offered no route to OA, with or without embargo). Come and satisfy all your canon law history needs: 'Parliament and the law of the Church of England, 1943–74 peterwebster.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

As I have more time now for interesting things, I got this out and dusted it off a bit. websterresearchconsulting.com

Webster Research and Consulting

Visit the post for more.

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The University of Southampton Summer Art Exhibition "Exploration: Beyond Boundaries" is open! Come and see my art piece "Submerged Worlds" - tactile 3D-printed seascapes you can explore through touch as well as sight! 📍 Level 4 Gallery, Hartley Library 📅 3 June - 3 Aug More info: tiny.cc/adk4101

Can you hold a dataset in your hands? It turns out you can! In my latest post for Inside Digital Scholarship, I explore data physicalisation and show how GEBCO data can be turned into a tangible raised-relief globe. Read it here 👇 tinyurl.com/bak6m6jm #DataPhysicalisation #DigitalScholshi

*sees the university managerialism discourse* *contemplates, again, expressing some Unpopular Views* *closes laptop*

This, really, is the crux of the issue, and it seems a peculiarly British problem.

James Ball@jamesrball.com · 3mo ago

Most of us just aren't paying nearly enough tax for the kind of public services, pensions, and welfare state we expect. But we have spent the last two decades getting validated by politicians claiming someone else can pay for it.

New paper! By Naomi Korn, @smitakheria.bsky.social & me: "Orphan Works, Mass-Digitisation of Cultural Heritage, and Licensing Barriers: Lessons from the United Kingdom’s Experience" - how Brexit led to the deletion of @britishlibrary.bsky.social's Spare Rib resource or.niscpr.res.in/index.php/JI...

📢 Just over two weeks left to nominate your work or work you love for the 2026 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/12/the-richard-deswarte-prize-in-digital-history/ #dhist

The 2026 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History - Digital History Seminar

SUBMIT YOUR NOMINATION HERE BEFORE 31 MAY Richard Deswarte (1965-2021) was one of the founding convenors of the Digital History seminar at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), University of Lon...

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Agreed, and to assume that whichever constituency is chosen will simply troop to the polls to ratify his coronation seems rather heroic.

Robert Saunders@robertsaunders.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I'm not anti-Burnham, but he chose to leave Parliament, he chose not to run in 2024 & he chose to seek re-election as Mayor. The idea he should jack this in 2 years early, that someone should give up their seat for him & that the PLP should sit on its hands until he's arrived feels rather entitled.

Listening to an interview with Polanski and feeling - for the first time - that political leadership is coming from a generation younger than me. (In truth, there's only a decade between us but the gap in sensibility feels much wider.)

@ryancordell.org on DHers who build 'technological imagination. Specific platforms, applications, and even coding languages come and go, but a technological imagination is able to abstract a problem—whether intellectual, professional, or personal—and formulate a plan' ryancordell.org/research/ane...

Anemoia, AI, and Skeuomorphism: The Material Turn in Digital Humanities | Ryan C. Cordell

Book history, digital humanities, old newspapers, and information sciences

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There's information about the kind of (small) projects I can help with, with examples, at websterresearchconsulting.com/services/

Services

Serving clients from across the UK, we focus on six key things. Understand With carefully designed and incisive research, we help our clients understand their stakeholders, and the wider environmen…

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Peter Webster@peterwebster.bsky.social · 6mo ago

As I have more time now for interesting things, I got this out and dusted it off a bit. websterresearchconsulting.com

I have no idea whether the figure of *fifty* institutions on the brink is accurate, but it wouldn't be a surprise. It would be good if Labour would stop fighting for the steering wheel and watched the road, as this has been evident for many months. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Students at risk if universities go bust, say MPs

An Education Select Committee report finds the government needs to make urgent plans for universities facing insolvency.

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I had Reform in mind here, but (IMO) a lot also depends on which Green Party shows up to govern: old-style "think global, act local" environmental activism, or something closer to Corbyn's Labour.

Peter Webster@peterwebster.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Lots of English voters are about to find out what happens to local services when under the control of politicians interested only in gestures and not in the difficult, boring and unfashionable business of local government.

Lib Dems control more English councils than the Conservative Party, the Green Party and Reform UK. Not that you'd know this from yesterday's coverage. The media's lack of curiosity and imagination and its inability to explore beyond the populist noise is as depressing as it is boringly predictable.

Lots of English voters are about to find out what happens to local services when under the control of politicians interested only in gestures and not in the difficult, boring and unfashionable business of local government.

⏰ Just over a month remaining to submit your nominations for the Deswarte Prize in Digital History, the prize that celebrates the best of digital history internationally. Full info here: ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/12/the-... #dhist

The 2026 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History - Digital History Seminar

SUBMIT YOUR NOMINATION HERE BEFORE 31 MAY Richard Deswarte (1965-2021) was one of the founding convenors of the Digital History seminar at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), University of Lon...

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